31 Dec 1902
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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1902
Page
1
A long reading lists local travel schedules, postal times, and civic notices. It reports train and mail arrivals, school openings, church services, meetings of Masons and charities, social events, and residents returning home for holidays. It notes several residents visiting Bangor Boston Portland and Montreal, plus local weather and public holiday closings.
Christmas activities in Ellsworth churches include Methodist Sunday school entertainment with a Santa Claus arrival, Unitarian supper with recitations and tree, Baptist Sunday school program, Congregational events, and St. Joseph’s Catholic church observances with low and high masses and a Sunday school tree.
A town calendar lists Friday January 23 Hancock ball with concert supper and Columbia book fair. Tuesday January 27 Hancock ball features Apollo Male Quartette of Boston. Misc prose comments follow about budgeting and saving, then a note on a town judge valuing a baby at 3090 with unclear context.
Negotiations with George H. Hardman of Enfield advance plans to set up Hardwood Supply Co. in Ellsworth. A $10,000 capital firm may be renamed and expanded to use the old B. C. Colvhoe building on State Street. The project aims to employ forty to fifty workers and use birch and other hardwoods, with several thousand dollars more needed to complete the funding.
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